'Hear' in the Bible

Know that the Lord has set apartthe faithful for Himself;the Lord will hear when I call to Him.

At daybreak, Lord, You hear my voice;at daybreak I plead my case to You and watch expectantly.

A Davidic prayer.Lord, hear a just cause;pay attention to my cry;listen to my prayer—from lips free of deceit.

I call on You, God,because You will answer me;listen closely to me; hear what I say.

Foreigners submit to me grudgingly;as soon as they hear, they obey me.

Lord, hear my voice when I call;be gracious to me and answer me.

I will boast in the Lord;the humble will hear and be glad.

I am like a deaf person; I do not hear.I am like a speechless personwho does not open his mouth.

I am like a man who does not hearand has no arguments in his mouth.

“Hear my prayer, Lord,and listen to my cry for help;do not be silent at my tears.For I am a foreigner residing with You,a temporary resident like all my fathers.

For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah.Hear this, all you peoples;listen, all who inhabit the world,

Let me hear joy and gladness;let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

God, hear my prayer;listen to the words of my mouth.

God, the One enthroned from long ago,will hear and will humiliate themSelahbecause they do not changeand do not fear God.

Look, they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips.“For who,” they say, “will hear?”

For the choir director: on stringed instruments. Davidic.God, hear my cry;pay attention to my prayer.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.God, hear my voice when I complain.Protect my life from the terror of the enemy.

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.I cry aloud to God,aloud to God, and He will hear me.

A Maskil of Asaph.My people, hear my instruction;listen to what I say.

Lord God of Hosts, hear my prayer;listen, God of Jacob.Selah

Lord, hear my prayer;listen to my plea for mercy.

My eyes look down on my enemies;my ears hear evildoers when they attack me.

Can the One who shaped the ear not hear,the One who formed the eye not see?

For He is our God,and we are the people of His pasture,the sheep under His care.Today, if you hear His voice:

A prayer of an afflicted person who is weak and pours out his lament before the Lord.Lord, hear my prayer;let my cry for help come before You.

to hear a prisoner’s groaning,to set free those condemned to die,

They have ears but cannot hear,noses, but cannot smell.

In keeping with Your faithful love, hear my voice.Lord, give me life in keeping with Your justice.

They have ears but cannot hear;indeed, there is no breath in their mouths.

All the kings on earth will give You thanks, Lord,when they hear what You have promised.

A Davidic psalm.Lord, hear my prayer.In Your faithfulness listen to my plea,and in Your righteousness answer me.

Don’t pay attention to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you,

My dove, in the clefts of the rock,in the crevices of the cliff,let me see your face,let me hear your voice;for your voice is sweet,and your face is lovely.

M You who dwell in the gardens—companions are listening for your voice—let me hear you!

Hear the word of the Lord,you rulers of Sodom!Listen to the instruction of our God,you people of Gomorrah!

Dull the minds of these people;deafen their ears and blind their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their minds,turn back, and be healed.

The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing. Then they will return to the Lord and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

Therefore I am filled with anguish.Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.I am too perplexed to hear,too dismayed to see.

From the ends of the earth we hear songs:The Splendor of the Righteous One.But I said, “I waste away! I waste away!Woe is me.”The treacherous act treacherously;the treacherous deal very treacherously.

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you mockerswho rule this people in Jerusalem.

Listen and hear my voice.Pay attention and hear what I say.

On that day the deaf will hearthe words of a document,and out of a deep darknessthe eyes of the blind will see.

and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,and the ears of those who hear will listen.

You who are far off, hear what I have done;you who are near, know My strength.”

You nations, come here and listen;you peoples, pay attention!Let the earth hear, and all that fills it,the world and all that comes from it.

Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke him for the words that Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.’”

I am about to put a spirit in him and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”

Listen closely, Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, Lord, and see. Hear all the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of Hosts:

All the nations are gathered together,and the peoples are assembled.Who among them can declare this,and tell us the former things?Let them present their witnessesto vindicate themselves,so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”

“So now hear this, lover of luxury,who sits securely,who says to herself,‘I exist, and there is no one else.I will never be a widowor know the loss of children.’

Indeed, the Lord’s hand is not too short to save,and His ear is not too deaf to hear.

I will destine you for the sword,and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered,because I called and you did not answer,I spoke and you did not hear;you did what was evil in My sightand chose what I did not delight in.

Even before they call, I will answer;while they are still speaking, I will hear.

So I will choose their punishment,and I will bring on them what they dreadbecause I called and no one answered;I spoke and they didn’t hear;they did what was evil in My sightand chose what I didn’t delight in.

You who tremble at His word,hear the word of the Lord:“Your brothers who hate and exclude youbecause of Me have said,‘Let the Lord be glorifiedso that we can see your joy!’But they will be put to shame.”

Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacoband all families of the house of Israel.

How long must I see the signal flagand hear the sound of the ram’s horn?

I hear a cry like a woman in labor,a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,stretching out her hands:Woe is me, for my life is wearybecause of the murderers!

Hear this,you foolish and senseless people.They have eyes, but they don’t see.They have ears, but they don’t hear.

“Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord and there call out this word: Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the Lord.

Now hear the word of the Lord, you women.Pay attention to the word of His mouth.Teach your daughters a lamentand one another a dirge,

Hear the word that the Lord has spoken to you, house of Israel.

“Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not hear them.

If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.”

Hear how they keep challenging me,“Where is the word of the Lord?Let it come!”

Announce to them: Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the residents of Jerusalem who enter through these gates.

Pay attention to me, Lord.Hear what my opponents are saying!

Say: Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will shudder

Let that man be like the citiesthe Lord demolished without compassion.Let him hear an outcry in the morningand a war cry at noontime

“And to the house of the king of Judah say this: ‘Hear the word of the Lord!

You are to say: Hear the word of the Lord, king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David—you, your officers, and your people who enter these gates.

Earth, earth, earth,hear the word of the Lord!

For who has stood in the council of the Lordto see and hear His word?Who has paid attention to His word and obeyed?

If they had really stood in My council,they would have enabled My people to hear My wordsand would have turned them back from their evil waysand their evil deeds.

Hear the sound of the shepherds’ cry,the wail of the leaders of the flock,for the Lord is destroying their pasture.

Hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Nations, hear the word of the Lord,and tell it among the far off coastlands!Say: The One who scattered Israel will gather him.He will watch over him as a shepherd guards his flock,

This city will bear on My behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I will do for them. They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace I will bring about for them.

“Yet hear the Lord’s word, Zedekiah, king of Judah. This is what the Lord says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;

If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king; don’t hide anything from us and we won’t kill you. Also, what did the king say to you?’

and if you say, ‘No, instead we’ll go to the land of Egypt where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for food, and we’ll live there,’

then hear the word of the Lord, remnant of Judah! This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: If you are firmly resolved to go to Egypt and live there for a while,

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt.

“Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you Judeans who live in the land of Egypt: ‘I have sworn by My great name, says Yahweh, that My name will never again be invoked by anyone of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord God lives.”

Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away, and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.

Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Certainly the flock’s little lambs will be dragged away; certainly the grazing land will be made desolate because of them.

You hear my plea:Do not ignore my cry for relief.

שׂ Sin/ שׁ ShinLord, You hear their insults,all their plots against me.

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman over the house of Israel. When you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.

You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

“Son of man, you are living among a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the Lord!

“Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

and say to the forest there: Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God says: I am about to ignite a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The blazing flame will not be extinguished, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

Say to the Ammonites: Hear the word of the Lord God: This is what the Lord God says: Because you said, ‘Good!’ about My sanctuary when it was desecrated, about the land of Israel when it was laid waste, and about the house of Judah when they went into exile,

“As for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.

“Now, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One person speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear what the message is that comes from the Lord!’

So My people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest profit.